The Sweet Home Mine is a gemstone and silver mine located in Park county, Colorado at an elevation of 11,339 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 11,339 Feet (3,456 Meters)
Commodity: Gemstone, Silver
Lat, Long: 39.3123, -106.11780
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Sweet Home Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sweet Home Mine
Secondary: Sweet Home Lode and Pulaski Lode (Patents 106 and 107)
Commodity
Primary: Gemstone
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Manganese
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Location
State: Colorado
County: Park
District: Alma
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Bryan and Karhryn Lees
Home Office: Sweet Home Rhodo, Inc.
Info Year: 1998
Years: 1990 -
Production
Year: 1998
Time Period: 1876-1998
Material type: > $5 million in Rhodochrosite crystal speciments
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Year First Production: 1876
Discovery Year: 1876
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granitic Gneiss
Role: Host
Description: Precambrian Granite Gneiss
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Precambrian
Age Old: Precambrian
Name: Granite
Role: Host
Description: Precambrian Granite
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Precambrian
Age Old: Precambrian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Huebnerite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Rhodochrosite
Trace: Topaz
Unknown: Apatite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): Failed silver mine, but very productive for rhodochrosite.
Comment (Reference): Reference to circular 294 from original MAS record 0080930016
References
Reference (Production): REF. NO. 3
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.
Reference (Deposit): COLO. STATE METAL MINING FUND, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLORADO, P.70.
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.
Reference (Deposit): USGS Circular 294, 1953, Results of reconnaissance for radioactive minerals in parts of the Alma District, Park County, Colorado.
Reference (Deposit): Moore, Thomas, and others, 1998, The Sweet Home mine: The Mineralogical Record, v. 29, no. 4, p. 1-153.
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